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Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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